[ds6] Using NC6 as a circuit level proxy between IPv6 and IPv4

[Mauro Tortonesi]

On Sat, 10 May 2003, Chris Leishman wrote:

> On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 01:24 AM, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
> > yes, absolutely. excuse me, i am working on a major refactoring of nc6
> > io_stream code (in order to intoduce the support of tunneling, logging
> > and
> > ssl) and i hoped to be able to merge my code before next release.
> > unfortunately i have not finished that work yet :-(
>
> Cool.  Sorry I haven't been doing much recently...been kinda busy.
> I've started doing some work for the Oulu University Secure Programming
> Group (http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/), which is good but busy.
>
> But if you want to bounce ideas off me, then just send em my way :)

sure, i will upload the code to the cvs repository as soon as it will pass
the compilation phase :-)

> >> Please be aware, however, that it's not very efficient proxying data
> >> this way.  There's unnecessary overhead in creating a new nc6 process
> >> for every new connection and also in multiple copies of the data as it
> >> is passed between the two processes.  Perhaps one day we'll add in
> >> better 'redirection' support.
> >
> > IMVHO, we should add this redirection ASAP.
>
> Yeah, I've thought about this before - the trick is figuring out a nice
> clean way to specify it on the command line.  The actual code part
> should be trivial.

i agree.

-- 
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Mauro Tortonesi			mauro at deepspace6.net
				mauro at ferrara.linux.it
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